Friday, August 3, 2012

How to eat a Tiara - Pink Ruffle Princess Cake with Edible Gold Tiara

This is the cake from Lilli's 8th birthday party. Y'all will have to wait till Sunday for the rest of the party photo's but I couldn't help but share this with you today.

OK can y'all guess the party theme.

Photo by Terri Vandermeer

Lilli helped to design the cake which was great fun. The top cake is 4 layers of white graduating to dark pink/ burgundy and is raspberry flavored.

Yes please I will have some cake - Photo Alyce Holzberger

The rasberry flavored cake is modified from the strawberry cake recipe in my book Sweets on a Stick.

The tiara is edible fondant with edible jelly jewels held in place with a little royal icing.

Photo by Terri Vandermeer

Yup
that's right the jewels are not those hard diamonds that cloud over as
soon as you touch and break your teeth.them but flexible edible jelly that you can pop on
cookies and for cake decoration......y'know for example tiaras.

Photo by Alyce Holzberger

I used patchwork cutters for the tiara template hand cut it out then applied 2 layers of gold americolor airbrush and 2 layers of gold home made paint which was a mixture of the americolor sheen, gold luster dust and rose spirits.

Hiya the sugarflair dusky pink is actually a gel colour - just a confusing name :) Here is a link to a page which shows how the colours graduate - it's actually one of my favorite colours http://www.lindyscakes.co.uk/shop/Pink-Dusky-Pink-Wine-Sugarflair-Paste-Colour-25g.html